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May 1971

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	Photo [Cover art] By Bob Pike (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Stockbrokers PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Stock exchanges PDF IMAGES
8-16	Letters/Department Letters On The new theatre, now, from February 1971: Letter By Richard Hornby Letter By Harold Clurman On The programming of Robert McNamara, from February 1971: Letter By John P. Roche Letter By David Halberstam On Movie studies, from March 1971: Letter By William S. Pechter Letter By Richard Schickel Note/correction PDF IMAGES
18-21	Foreign notes/Article The firewalkers of Udappawa By Victor Perera SEE ALSO: Journeys—Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka; Perera, Victor PDF IMAGES
22-28	The easy chair/Article On breathing and other ills By Richard W. (Richard William) Murphy SEE ALSO: Air; Blame; 1969-1974; Oratory; Pollution; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
30-42	Performing arts/Article Reflections on movies By Harold Clurman SEE ALSO: Five easy pieces (Motion picture); MASH (Motion picture); Motion pictures; Politics in motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures; Violence in motion pictures PDF IMAGES
42	Poem Pieces of history By James Ingram Merrill PDF IMAGES
47-57	Article The coming wounds of Wall Street By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: New York Stock Exchange; Stock exchanges; Stockbrokers; Wall Street PDF IMAGES
60-65	Article The Alex Karras Golf Classic By George Plimpton SEE ALSO: Karras, Alex; Flint; Fund raising; Plimpton, George; Golf; Buterakos, Pete; Tournaments PDF IMAGES
67-72	Article Album of older women By Stanley Kauffmann SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Sexual behavior; Kauffmann, Stanley; Young men PDF IMAGES
73-81	Article The blacks and the unions By Bayard Rustin SEE ALSO: African American membership; Civil rights movements; Labor movement; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
82-86	Fiction As the hippiest doctor almost grooved By Stephen Erhart SEE ALSO: Casualties; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES
86	Poem Music volute By John Hollander SEE ALSO: Shells PDF IMAGES
87-101	Article Reunion in Concord By Otto Friedrich SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Class reunions; Concord; Friedrich, Otto PDF IMAGES
102-109	Books/Review Ballet for the man who enjoys Wallace Stevens By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: B.H. Haggin; Ballet; Ballet chronicle (Book); Denby, Edwin; Looking at the dance (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-112	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel, Jean M. Halloran, John Hollander, Suzanne Mantell, and Catharine Meyer SEE ALSO: Palca, Alfred; Innes, Hammond; Levkas Man (Book); Davidson, Lionel; Farber, Manny; Ghertler, Monte; K., Mrs.; Negative space: Manny Farber on the movies (Book); MacKenzie, Rachel; Titmuss, Richard Morris; Risk (Book); Smith's gazelle (Book); The couple; a sexual profile by Mr. and Mrs. K, as told to Monte Ghertler and Alfred Palca (Book); The gift relationship; from human blood to social policy (Book) PDF IMAGES
113-114	Music/Article Prodigies and music By Harold C. Schonberg SEE ALSO: Five easy pieces (Motion picture) PDF IMAGES